By Dragana Perkovic-Martin, Principal Investigator for DopplerScatt at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory // SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA // 11/02/21 Yesterday was a hard down day for the team – everyone needed a rest after a very active week before. The hard down days are in NASA airborne rules and ensure that fatigue does not set in and …
By Alison Gold // NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, MARYLAND // NASA's Sub-Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics Experiment (S-MODE) relies on two aircraft, 17 remote-controlled vehicles, a ship and dozens of drifting instruments to make its detailed study of ocean eddies, currents and whirlpools. The researchers aim to assess how these small, high-energy ocean events contribute to …
By Nick Pizzo // OFF THE COAST OF CALIFORNIA // The October deployment of NASA's Sub-Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics Experiment (S-MODE) mission is underway and a current of excitement has filled the halls of our virtual meetings. Over the past two years, more than 50 members of the S-MODE project have been meeting virtually to prepare …
By Dragana Perkovic-Martin, Principal Investigator for DopplerScatt at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory // SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA // 10/25/2021 The first message I read this morning is that Ernesto, one of the deputy Principal Investigators on the S-MODE project and our project scientist for DopplerScatt, has succumbed to food poisoning. So, I am going to be making …
